Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps

The strategies and tactics that the book espouses are all well and good, but there's no depth to the suggestions and writing style leaves a lot to be desired. It feels like a series of academic blog posts about survey results instead of a technical manual for how to implement the changes that it wants you to make. As of 2024, it also feels a bit dated; only the most conservative, dysfunctional organizations aren't doing the basic things that the book suggests.

I liked it. I would recommend it to a few specific people, but it’s nothing to rave about.

I liked it. I would recommend it to a few specific people, but it’s nothing to rave about.

useless;
a long read for a blogpost on continuous delivery, agile and all the modern buzzwords where (for some unknown reason) the author introduces here research into good companies (WUT) and mistakes correlation for causality;
the other part of this book (probably in order to gain some additional pages) 'explains' how to use surveys to 'research' and provides 'evidence' how this approach is as solid as my mom's arguments;
'Did you say SURVEYs' - I am hearing you whisper. Yes, you got that right - the surveys are there to tell us why the company is good (not sure what high-performance means here really).

Gene, why would you even put your name on this brochure?
For fuck's sake!

Beeing in to the agile movement this is a great read!